Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. J. K. Rowling on age
The best of us must sometimes eat our words. J. K. Rowling on best
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. J. K. Rowling on best
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. J. K. Rowling on best
No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. J. K. Rowling on business
Death is just life's next big adventure. J. K. Rowling on death
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J. K. Rowling on death
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. J. K. Rowling on death
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling on dreams
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. J. K. Rowling on dreams
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. J. K. Rowling on experience
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J. K. Rowling on failure
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling on failure
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. J. K. Rowling on failure
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. J. K. Rowling on famous
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. J. K. Rowling on famous
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J. K. Rowling on fear
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling on fear
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. J. K. Rowling on fear
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. J. K. Rowling on funny